Method of cutting garments from tubular fabrics.



No. 826,683. PATENTED JULY 24. 1906.

J. J; MCDONALD.

METHOD OF CUTTING GARMENTS FROM TUBULAR FABRICS. APPLICATION FILED SEPT.12. 1905.

1 Q lNl/EN TOR WITNESSES ll TTOHIVEYS JOSEPH J. MCDONALD, OF SYLACAUGA,ALABAMAQ METHOD OF CUTTING GARMENTS FROM TUBULAR FABRICS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Eatenteo duly 24:, 1906.

Application filed September 12, 1905. Serial No. 278,203.

To a whom; it may concern: I

Be it known that I, JosEPH J. MCDONALD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Sylacauga, in the county of Talladega and State of Alabama,have invented a certain new and useful ImprovedMethod of CuttingGarments from Woven or Knit Material in Tubular Form, of which thefollowing is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an improved method for cutting ladiesundervests from strips of woven or knit material of tubular form or fromstrips of material which are double and the side edges of which areconnected; and the invention consists in an improved method of cuttinggarments of the class specified from the said material, whereby a savingof material is effected and the cost of the garment reduced.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, ofwhich the accompanying drawings form a part, in which the separate partsof my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters ineach of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a strip ofwoven or knit material of tubular form and showing my improved method ofcutting ladies undervests therefrom; Fig. 2, a side view of a garmentformed by cutting the strip of mate rial as shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3, anend view of a similar garment also formed by cutting the strip ofmaterial as shown in Fig. 1; and Fig. 4, a view similar to Fig. 2, butshowing the garment made from the cut strip shown in Fig. 3.

In the practice of my invention I provide a long strip of woven or knitmaterial which is of predetermined width and which is double or tubularin form, and from this strip I out a garment-strip (1. (Shown in Fig.1.) The strip a is then cut transversely, as indicated by the line U V WX Y Z, and this forms a garment b, which is shown in Fig. 1 and in Fig.2, said garment I) being provided with shoulder-pieces b and aneck-opening b and it will be understood that the shoulder-pieces b aredivided at b and are stitched together in the o eration of completingthe garment, after w ich the shoulder-pieces b and the edge of theneck-opening b are bound or covered with lace or any other suitablematerial in the usual manner.

In cutting the strip a transversely, as indicated by the line U V W X YZ, another garment member 0 is formed, having at one end rectangularrecesses, (indicated by the lines U V W and X Y Z,) between which is anoblong rectangular projection 0 and in the further practice of myinvention the end portions of the oblong rectangular projection c arecut out, as indicated by the dotted lines V S T and T S Y, and thesmaller parts 1" are all the waste there is in cutting two separate andsimilar garments in this manner. After the parts 1 are cut away it willbe observed that the rectangular end projection 0 of the garment member0 is made shorter, and an end view of the garment member 0 is shown inFig. 3, and by taking hold of the opposite sides of the central parts ofthe garment member a at d and pulling the same outwardly at right anglesto the original fold, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 3, theside fold of the goods at (Z is changed to the dotted line d shown inFig. 1 and the garment 0 shown in Fig. 4 is produced. This garment isalso provided with shoulderpieces 0 and a neck-opening c", and inpractice the edges of the shoulder-pieces 0 which are open at 0 arestitched together and the shoulder-pieces c and the neck-opening c arebound or covered with lace or any other suitable material in the usualmanner. In this way I am enabled to cut from the strip a two garments band c exactly alike and eX- actly of the same size, and it will beunderstood that these' garments may be made of any desired size, thewidth thereof depending on the width of the strip a and the lengththereof depending on the length of said strip.

In cutting the strip a as herein shown and described it is evident thatthe location of the lines U V and Y Z, together with the length thereofand the lengths of the lines W V and X Y, must be predetermined, as mustalso the lengths of the lines V S and S Y, and it is further apparentthat these dimensions will depend on the desired dimensions of theshoulder-pieces b and a and on the neckopenings 11 and c of the garmentsb and c.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. The herein-described method of cutting a garment from a strip ofdouble material which consists in cutting the said material at apredetermined point transversely and inwardly from the opposite sideedges thereof to a predetermined point, then cutting said IIO materialfrom said point a predetermined distance in the direction of one endthereof, and then cutting transversely of said strip to connect thelast-named cuts whereby the strip is divided into two garment members,one of which is complete and provided with shoulder members and aneck-opening, and the other of Which is provided with cornerrecesses inone end thereof between which is an oblong member, and then cuttingpredetermined amountsoff of the end of said oblong member, substantiallyas shown and described.

2. The herein-described method of cutting a garment from a strip ofdouble material which consists in cutting said strip transversely nearthe middle thereof as indicated by the line U V W X Y Z whereby-twogarment members I) and c are formed, the garment member 0 being providedat one end with a rectangular oblong projection 0 and then cutting offpredetermined amounts of said rectangular oblong projection as indicatedby the dotted lines V S T and T S Y, substantially as shown anddescribed.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname, in pres ence of the subscribing witnesses, this 28th day ofAugust, 1905.

JOS. J. MCDONALD.

Witnesses:

H. 0. Jonas, F. M. MCDONALD.

